Currently, if you leave your guild, you lose your loyalty bonuses, but get them back when you return to the same guild. However, if you join a new guild, your total loyalty is halved, and leaving that guild to return to the original guild halves loyalty again.

A few heroes miss the fun of chatting with friends in other guilds.

Suppose that loyalty bonuses are only halved when you raid with another guild.

So character "Fred" could leave "Guild A", losing all loyalty bonuses, join "Guild B", still with no loyalty bonuses, and fight in dungeons and chat. So long as Fred does not raid with Guild B, his loyalty bonuses remain full strength upon returning to Guild A. The moment Fred enters his first raid with Guild B, bonuses with Guild A are lost, and Fred now gets loyalty with Guild B at half the progress from Guild A.

The idea of implementing custom chat channels in general has come up a few times and I think it's something we want to implement in the future. That being said, it still needs to be scoped out and have significant dev time allocated... so I wouldn't expect it anytime soon. Just know that personally I'm a big fan of the idea and would definitely like to do it.

Darkhorse wrote:The idea of implementing custom chat channels in general has come up a few times and I think it's something we want to implement in the future. That being said, it still needs to be scoped out and have significant dev time allocated... so I wouldn't expect it anytime soon. Just know that personally I'm a big fan of the idea and would definitely like to do it.

Thanks for the dev response Darkhorse...I think at the end of the day, what we are all really looking for is an easy way of traveling across guilds to visit and socialize...this really was an aspect of 1.5 that did wonders for the BoH community.

When I Merced with Celestrial Being in v1.3/ 1.4, I would hang out between Raids and run Dungeon Zones with their awesome Guild Favors. While you could set this new programming to only grant you Guild Favors for the Guild you currently have Perks with, I already see lots of confusion, BoH Urban Legends and false bug reports on the Forums, and in Chat, without making the confusing game mechanic of Guild Loyalty becoming even more opaque to the player.

A Visitor Chat Channel would be familiar to players from the "Raid Finder" mechanic of adding the Chat Channel for the Guild you are Mercing.

As an added advantage, this would allow you to check out a Guild before joining it. With a Merc Cap of 15, it can be difficult to check out a new Guild when your old Guild dies. If the new Guild has X-Rated language, unpublished Raid rules, or is dismissive of female gamers, you lose 50% Loyalty a second time when you leave this poor choice of a Guild and search for a better Guild.